PDAs May Be Fun in the Classroom,
But They Won't Replace Teachers

By

Jeremy Wagstaff Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated May 28, 2001 12:01 a.m. ET

You may not find this quite as creepy as I do, but bear with me.

This month the University of South Dakota became the first U.S. campus to require all new students to have Palm personal digital assistants (let's call them PDAs; everyone else does). According to a press release from Palm Inc., the supplier: "Palm hand-helds provide students a quick, simple, smart and fun way to learn and communicate inside and outside of lecture...